Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-10-19

eye surveyed the slender form of the
youth from foot 10 broad high forehead
and then remarked:
well. We may not be much on the
work, but by the tarnation. We know
how 10 hanl.c your mother tongue
which is more than / do"
''But YOU have large fine manly
form. You ar; gifted by God with the
strength of Jour men like myself, OF
which you should be proud "
Yes said John, with n sigh, 81
was made biz so was the OK; and to be
big i'm this world Is to be a drudge.
You are one o these genteel fellers
what kin Ia X ike book; somethin' /
never could learn when a bow"
Learn il now, since you are a
man." said Waiter.
I'm too big and amt cot time to go
TO school. Pinkey is the only one o. us
children who could learn al school"
''YOu need not 90 to school to learn
great many things about the parts OF
speech"
How'll learn, then2'
at home
''Got no teacher"
81 could teach YOU"
"But we hay. to work"
You will fad an Idle moment ac-
casionally, watch. Improperly improved.
would accomplish wonders in the
course of time"
The young man scratched his head
a moment thoGghtfully, and then said:
'P'raps' somcthin' could be done in
that way, but we must get to work
here, or FL make no show afore
noon
lIe then proceeded to show Walter
into the mysteries of starting a shock
of fodder.
'.You help me on the first row
through. and We kin each bring 4 row
back. he said to Walter.
The corn was large and heavy with
giant stalks and blades that made the
field seem q Wilderness. John an
nounced that they would cut the first
twelve hill square. So he counted six
from the south side and six from the
west. They started in at the south
west corner. Then he took four hills
that formed a square in the center and
binding them diagonally took the tops
so as to form a rude coop.
That's the skeleton" explained
John ION which we build the shock"
He then commenced work. graspine
a hill in his left arm he held il close to
his shoulder, with one blow of his
heavy sword-like knife he severed the
entire hill. Then to the next, the next,
and the next in such rapid succession
until he had gathered sufficient to
make a large armt.I when he bore it to
the skeleton and stood up against 1t
almost straight, the butt end down and
the top up.
Walter stood for n few moments
watching his tutor, and saw gradually
and even rapidly growing around him
a clear spot. He began to initiate the
example of John Miles, with a partial
success.
He was as awkward in this as John
Miles would have been in a drawing
room, and the warning cry of ''look
out for your shins" frequently came to
his ears.
But after a short time he became
more skilled in the use of his heavy
sword, and found that by ordinary
care there would be no danger of even
4 slight wound.
Shock after shock of tall stalks rose
in the field, leaving broad trail be-
hind them. Ever advancing into that
impenetrablc jungle and sweeping all
before them, the young men moved on
without stopping.
John Miles seemed TO work faster as
he became warmed up to it, aud Wal
ter Browntieij in his youthful ambition
strove 10 keep pace with him.
The sun rose higher in the heavens,
and the morning, which at its birth
was cool, grew warm before ii was one
fourth over
The hotter grew the day, the faster
John Miles worked. His strong arm
seemed never to tire. Starting in with
a merry whistle he kept it up through
the entire day. The higher rose the
sun. the hotter the day became, the
faster he worked, the shriller sounded
his whistle over the field.
Walter made manly effort 10 keep
pace with him, but found that impos-
sibe.
The perspiration streamed down his
heated face, and even through his
shirt. The corn blades chaffed his
neck and the side of his face, until
every stroke he made caused intense
pain. But he had started TO do or die.
and made no complaint. On the road
was weary tramp and starvation; here
was labor and pain, but food and shell
ter. He contrasted his pleasant labori-
GUS condition. with his life of few
months ago. How different. How he
had been Inundated. The sense of
the great wrongs he had endured,
seemed to steel his arm and rouse his
fainting spirits.
Try as he would he could not COM
pete with the robust son OF his employ
er. Like raging hurricane John
Miles swept around Walter. leaving
naught but the bare field. while the in
experienced youth was struggling with
a few hills of corn.
Would that arm never tire. would
that piercing whistle never cease?
thought Walter, as he struggled to
keep up with the young farmer. John
saw that he was doing all in his power
to keep pace with him, and knowing
that no farmer in the entire fiat could
do that, he did not attempt to hurry
him. Thus hour after hour passed.
To the painting Walter, it seemed
ages; John Miles seemed to gain un-
tired strength and rapid ty with each
stroke. His blows fell faster and he
heaped the corn up higher while his
whistle sounded louder and .snriller
upon the morning air.
They had been continually advance
ing into the dense wilderness, and there
had seemed no end 20 IT, Not breeze
was stirring or colld STR in that dense
corn, to cool the brow of the almost
fainting youth.
AT last when his head grew heavy
and throbbing. when ne was dizzy
from heat, and felt as though he was
chilly instead of warm, they suddenly
burst through the wilderness, and a
neat little farm cottage that stood in a
grove of elms and oaks, was just across
the fence.
Let's go to Uncle Dams and git a
drink, said John, as the last shock